Paper table



D. Y. READ` PAPER TABLE v Filed .April SO 1923 Patented oei. 21, i924.

sirenl sr 'rss asians DAVID YULEE READ, onwnsiiriveroiv, Drs'frnicr or corni/inra', AssiofivoarioA ELLIOTT-FISHER coivirANY, A CORPORATION or DELAWARE.

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Application filed April 30, 1923. Serial No. 635,658.

To all whom. t may concern:

Be it known that DAviD Y. READ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, District of Columbia, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper rfables, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to flat platen typewriters, and more particularly to the equipment of a flat platen with Van erasure table.

The object of the invention is to provide means facilitating erasures or other manipulation of the advanced ends of work sheets or webs carried. by the platen.

To the accomplishment of this objectthe illustrated embodiment of the invention includes a disappearing erasure table located at the front end of the platen, in an inoperative position, out of interference with the usual handling, feeding and cutting of the webs, but easily movable to its operative position to support the webs and facilitate erasures and the like.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a front end elevation of a flat platen equipped with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. n

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the table.

The platen 4l is mounted as usual in a platen frame 2 having al transverse front bar 3 the upper edge 4i of which is dropped to a plane considerably below that of the platen to facilitate the feeding of paper webs under a cutter 5 located at the front end of the platen.

It will be understood that this forward feeding of the webs to displace the printed portion thereof is effected by raising the cutter and drawing forward the front ends of the webs which are then severed by drawing them against the cutter'. Obviously this oper-ation necessitates a clear unobstructed space .in front of the platen and accounts for the dropping of the fra-me bar 4.

It sometime-s happens, however, that the operator desires to make an erasure which if done within the writing area of the platen results in smudging the paper ornecessitates masking the intermediate carbon sheets. In order to leave the platen unobstructed and to at the same time provide a support over which .the paper webs maybe drawn for erasures I provide a. disappearing paper table 6. rIhis table ris preferably of sheet metal bent dEen.V

to form a platform 7 and a support 8 extendi i ing from the rear edge of the platform at an acute angle. At its lower edge the support 8 is hinged to the bar 3 as by trunnions 9 received by bearing brackets 10 secured to the bar.

The platform 7 is formed with extensions Il which, in the operative position of the table o-verlie the elevated end portions of the bar 3, it being understood that the dropped edge 4 o-f the bar is only coextensive with the platen which is considerably narrower than the frame. Normally the paper table occupies the inoperativerposition shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 with the supp-ort 8 lying against the front face of the bar 3 and the platform 7 lextending under and behind the bar. When it is desired .to make an erasure the table is swung up to the full line position in Fig. 2. In this position the extensions 1l will rest on the bar 3 in rear of the center of gravity of the table. The operator may now draw the ends of the paper web over the tawitl'iou-t smudging the paper or masking the I carbons. Vlien the erasure has' been made the table is merely tilted forward and caused `so ble which will afford a temporary .support to drop or disappear to i-ts norma-l inopera-v tive non-obstructing position.

After the` erasure has beenmade the paper I webs may be tightly grasped in rear of the carbons and drawn back to their origina-l positions by short backward movements rwhich will not permit creeping of the webs upon one another. Y

What I claim is: l. The combination with a liait platen, of a paper table normally occupying aninoperative posi-tion but movable into theplane of the platen to rece-ive work sheets therefrom. 2. The combination with a flat platen, of

. a hinged palper taible normally occupying a position ont of the plane of the platen but f movable into said pla-ne adjacent to the front end of the platen.

3. The combination with a iat pilatein-'of a paper table hinged in a plane below and in advance of the platen and movable in-to and out of the plane of the platen, said table including ai platform and a support disposed hinged connection between said support and atan angle thereto, and means for sustaining the frame bar, said connection permitting 10 the table when in operative position. the platform to' swing into and out of the 1l. The combination with a platen, of a plane of the platen and to rest on the front 5 platen frame having a front bar in advance bar in one position.

of the platen, a paper table including a plat- In testimony whereof I hereunto aix my form and a support extending at an angle Signature. from the rear edge of the platform, and a DAVID YULEE READ. 

